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Finishing your knitting is one of the most important details, and can really help make the look of your project. This video shows one of the most important finishing details, how to bind off your stitches. The Bind Off -- How to Finish your Knitting

That would be a weakness for me - not being able to go buy some new yarn or fabric if I didn't have enough of what I needed. It seems that invariably I find a project that just doesn't fit to the amount or type of yarn that I have on hand, so go looking for more. When I get a backlog of small...

You know how sometimes you have an idea and then you find out others have the same idea? Well, I have been saying for years (every time a palstic shopping bag ripped and my food fell all over the street) "You know, these bags, woven together, would actually be pretty strong!" It turns out that...

I accidentally hijacked a thread applauding Hobby Lobby. I really really enjoy going there. To the point that my internal financial adviser often forgoes going to that store to avoid temptation. The reason I hijacked it is because I was really happy with the deals at Smiley's Yarn. Pat mentioned...

I've been recently doing a lot of home decorating crafts - things we need like rugs and right now, I'm crocheting pot holders, since our old ones are now useless. :) I'm finding that apparently this is a trend for less frugal people, and the big craft stores have caught on and raised their...

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